By Nick Heath, 2 April 2008 14:38
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Local government CIOs are being invited to join a UK-wide body that will help shape national IT policy.
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The Local Government CIO Council met for the first time on 1 April after being set up by local government IT group the Society of IT Management (Socitm).
The group will meet three times per year and report to the main Government CIO Council, allowing local government issues to be put on the national CIO agenda.
President of Socitm, Rose Crozier, said the new group would allow local CIOs to make a positive contribution to "advancing the transformational government agenda".
Members of the Local Government CIO Council include, among others: Peter Bole, head of ICT commissioning at Kent County Council; Richard Steel, CTO Council member and CIO at the London Borough of Newham; Dylan Roberts, head of ICT at Leeds City Council; Jos Creese, CIO Council member and head of ICT at Hampshire County Council and Tim Rainey, assistant chief executive at Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council.
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1. Karen Challinor
could we have a list of these people along with their IT qualifications rather than their job titles
I have a suspicion that some of them may not have any IT background at all and would be interested to see if I'm wrong
2. Radical Meldrew
What is the point of this exercise? The main advantage to them is that any strategic failures can now be shared to try and prevent further occurrences and any failing remedial action can apportioned to the society recommendations and not pinned down to an individual.
This may be a very cynical viewpoint but they shaped this opinion by their systematic underperformance in just about every sector of government IT that they have an influence on.
3. Vicky Sargent
A list of the LG CIO Council members appears in the story. Socitm will be publishing further information about the purpose and activity of the Council, including biographical details and statements from its members, later this week. You will be able to find this in the LG CIO Council pages within the transformation section of the Socitm website www.socitm.gov.uk